Eligius Fromentin

Eligius Fromentin (1767-6 October 1822) was a US Senator from Louisiana from 4 March 1813 to 4 March 1819, succeeding Allan B. Magruder and preceding James Brown. He was a Democratic-Republican.

Biography
Eligius Fromentin was born and raised in France, where he became a Catholic priest, and he fled the country during the French Revolution and settled in the United States. He settled in Maryland, where he was a schoolteacher and priest, but, in the early 19th century, he decided to leave the church and become a lawyer in Louisiana. From 1807 to 1811, he served in the Territorial House of Representatives, and he helped to draft the state's constitution in 1812. In 1813, he became the first former priest to serve in the US Congress, serving one term in the US Senate as a Democratic-Republican. He then worked as a judge in Louisiana and Florida, and he died in 1822.